Tacoma Smelter Plume: Sampling begins on southern Vashon-Maury Island and in north Tacoma

By Jill Jacobson, Yard Program Outreach Coordinator, Toxics Cleanup Program




















Ecology's
Residential Yard Sampling and Cleanup Program (Yard Program) has started soil sampling
in north Tacoma and on southern Vashon-Maury Island.


We are sampling residential yards for arsenic and lead
contamination from the former Tacoma Asarco smelter.




To find